Where the Trees are a Desertexplores
the links between pollution trading and monoculture eucalyptus
plantations in Brazil. The publication is a collaboration between
Carbon Trade Watch and our partners in Brazil, FASE-ES. Where the Trees are a Desert explores the issues from the perspective of people living and struggling with plantations on the ground. Nov 2003

The Sky is Not the Limit gives an overview of the issues around pollution trading and introduces the main issues such as; environmental justice, NGO co-optation and privatisation of the atmosphere. Also explored is the history of the UN process and who the key players are in the emerging emissions markets. Jan 2003

Carbon Trade Watch
Putting a price on ecological systems has been around for several decades, although it was especially heightened during the UN climate negotiations with the introduction of the carbon market, a system which places a monetary value on the carbon-cycle capacity of nature for trade in financial...Read More

Carbon Trade Watch
This new publication aims to break down the complexities of emerging "nature" financing by exploring a new pilot facility put forward by the European Commission and the European Investment Bank, called the Natural Capital Finance Facility. The authors discover the lack of transparency...Read More

Carbon Trade Watch
The paper wants to start questioning the emphasis in EU policies on natural gas and three elements in particular:
• Natural gas as transition fuel
• The massive planned investments in gas-related...Read More

Carbon Trade Watch
The need to halt the alarming rates of deforestation and forest degradation is without hesitation of high importance. Forests destruction displaces forest dependant peoples, often destroying their livelihoods and violating human rights. Moreover, even though the majority of...Read More

Scrap the EU-ETSWhy it must be replaced with direct action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Brussels, April 15th– The European Parliament votes tomorrow on the European Commission's proposal to backload 900 million emissions permits within the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). This vote...Read More

Carbon Trade Watch
The author of the report, Ricardo Coelho stated: “Carbon trading cannot deliver the necessary phase out of fossil fuels nor can it question the destructive over-production and consumption model that lies at the heart of industrialized countries’ economies. By diverting resources...Read More

Carbon Trade Watch
New research reveals that the windfall profits gained in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) by the top eight polluters in Spain were mostly from the steel and cement industries. The report critiques the inconsistencies in the Spanish State’s climate plan and its continuous...Read More

ephemeraweb.orgephemera: theory & politics in organization
volume 12, number 1/2
The atmosphere business
Issue editors: Steffen Böhm, Anna-Maria Murtola and Sverre Spoelstra
The contributions collected in this special issue of ephemera question the underlying ideologies and...Read More

Carbon Trade Watch and Corporate Europe Observatory
A proposed reform to the European Commission’s State Aid rules will allow member states to compensate industry for increases in electricity charges incurred as a result of the Emissions Trading System (ETS). Already, the UK Government has committed to covering these costs...Read More

No REDD Platform
—Nnimmo Bassey, Alternative Nobel Prize Laureate, Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), Chair of Friends of the Earth International and poet
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the democracy center
Published in October 2011, ‘Beating Goliath’ gathers case studies from previous successful campaigns against corporations, looking at how they won and what we can learn from them. It provides links to many useful resources for activists, and highlights current campaigns engaged in...Read More

Carbon Trade Watch and Corporate Europe Observatory
The second initiative is the Roadmap for moving to a competitive low-carbon economy in 2050 (hereafter “Roadmap”), which has been proposed by the European Commission, and which will be discussed on 21 June at the inter-ministerial Environment Council. The Roadmap...Read More

CTW, GJEP and IEN
No to REDD+!
REDD+ is still being negotiated. There are many who defend REDD+ for
valuing ecosystems services; there are others who see it as the only
way to protect forests and stabilize the climate. But whatever form
REDD+ takes, even if it includes Human Rights safeguards, it...Read More

Carbon Trade Watch
REDD+ rewards polluters with carbon credits, allowing them to elude
their responsibility to reduce emissions at source. There are billions
of dollars at stake and no real obligation to respect human or
collective rights – the so-called “safeguards” mentioned in...Read More

Oscar Reyes
The global carbon market is in crisis. Proposed emissions trading
schemes in the USA, Japan and Canada have stalled indefinitely; new
markets in Australia and South Korea face significant delays; and
climate justice activists have successfully blocked the start of a
planned scheme in...Read More

Carbon Trade Watch and Corporate Europe Observatory
Emissions trading is the European Union’s flagship measure for tackling climate change, and it is failing badly. In theory it provides a cheap and efficient means to limit greenhouse gas reductions within an ever-tightening cap, but in practice it has rewarded major polluters with...Read More

The Gaia Foundation, Carbon Trade Watch and Timberwatch
The United Nation’s carbon offset mechanism is rewarding pollution, and could lead to a land grab for industrial biofuels, tree plantations, genetically modified crops and biochar projects in Africa
A new briefing, titled “The CDM in Africa: marketing a new land...Read More